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| What's Happening to the Secret Ballot? | |
| Labor unions across the country are pushing Congress to take away the right of American workers to cast a secret ballot in deciding whether to join a union. Legislation to do just that – a bill deceptively named the Employee Free Choice Act – easily passed the House in the 110th Congress and fell only nine votes shy of passing in the Senate. Now, with proponents holding a larger majority in both chambers, the threat of this anti-worker legislation becoming law looms large. We must not let this happen. |
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| Previewing the 2009 Legislative Session | |
| On Monday, January 15th, the 150th session of the Georgia General Assembly will meet in Atlanta. From that time to Sine Die, as Mark Twain once said, "No man's life, liberty or property are safe." |
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| The Decline of War | |
| General Sherman said it: “War is hell.” Georgians in the path of his “march to the sea” probably agreed with nothing he said except that. War brutalizes humans and sacrifices life for a perceived greater good. The human perception of “greater good” being what it is, wars are not likely to disappear anytime soon. The good news is that war is in decline. |
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| Road to Congestion Relief Leads ... Somewhere Else | |
| “If you build it, they will come,” was the mantra for opponents of road-building in metro Atlanta, the economic engine of Georgia. So we didn’t build “it.” And still “they” came. Now “it” is almost too expensive. It still needs to be built – just somewhere else, so that those who don’t need to come won’t come. |
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| The $700 Billion Wakeup Call | |
| It was not Webvan or Pets.com this time. It was Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, AIG and Wachovia. Gone or sold for pennies on the dollar. It was $700 billion – taxpayer dollars – rushed through Congress to avert the “greatest crisis of our time.” What actually happened, and what can we learn from it? |
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| Taking Your Green to Go Green | |
| “Going green” almost seems routine. It’s easy for business and industry to “go green.” It’s easy for government to propose, pass and get funding for “green” laws and regulations, laying a guilt trip on Americans for stamping their fascist carbon bootprint on a warming globe. “Bob the Builder” is hard at work indoctrinating children about development destroying the environment. Resist the call of the greenies and you’re considered Neanderthal – almost appropriately, considering that activists behind the movement seem bent on regressing us to the cave. |
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